Bekoha

@bekoha.bsky.social

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Unofficial unverified fan-page (impersonation) of Bekoha (not real) at bsky dot app? bsky dot social?? whatever this webzone is information superhighway vagabond; acquaintance of eggbug; chopped liver hyperfixation trivia core with a side of shitposting

"Chinese Heaven" meme aka "No it's fine, I just didn't think it would be Chinese" video screenshot hastily edited to replace background with the Fallout 3 wasteland scenic overlook among other things

A page from "Eidos Interactive Product Catalog" that describes upcoming videogame Deus Ex. Text reads:

"The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place where terrorists operate openly, killing thousands. In this thrilling roleplaying adventure, you play the part of a powerful, nano-technologically augmented, anti-terrorist agent. To defeat your enemies, you must travel the globe on a quest for knowledge, develop your character's strengths, build a network of allies, and determine when stealth and strategy are more important than action. And each time you think you've got the game figuredout, there's another, deeper mystery to be unraveled. You will never know who to trust, who is in on the conspiracy and who is innocent. Maybe no one is...

Key features:
• From Warren Spector, creator of the Ultima™ series.
• Uses ID Software's Quake II Unified Engine Technology.
• Game engine is designed to adjust to each player's own style: the choices a player makes, changes the way in-game characters react.
• Develop your character's strengths as you see fit, build a network of allies to assist you, or trust no one and destroy the enemy before they have a chance to destroy you."

Shut your fault mouth, otherwise I will have to keep your userdata for several months in case I need to sue you.

A screenshot of current redump.info main page. Official announcement text partially reads:

"As many of you are aware, there have been longstanding issues with the redump.org site infrastructure. Basic features such as HTTPS have been missing and the project staff have been unable to address this due to the site being tightly controlled by an inactive administrator.

This has become increasingly untenable over the course of the past year, with major site outages and issues causing real concern that data could be permanently lost. Staff have made multiple attempts over several years to contact the redump.org admin to ask for these issues to be addressed, but all of these efforts have been either rebuffed or outright ignored. We believe that the work done here at Redump is very important for long-term preservation of data, which has necessitated this shift to ensure the project is successful for many years to come.

As a result, this year we decided to take the initiative and move to a new site, giving us a more solid and modern codebase to work from, and a more collaborative governance structure ensuring that major site decisions cannot be locked behind the availability of any single member of the team.

[...]

The Redump staff would like to thank all of you for your patience as we've worked through this process, and over the past few years in dealing with the difficulties presented by the old site. We ask for your continued patience as we get up and running, as it will take everyone some time to get fully up to speed. In particular, for the moment we ask that you keep a note of any feature requests you might have. We will soon be announcing an official process for submitting these, and we have many ideas of our own, but for now our focus is on making this transition as seamless as possible."

A screenshot from Jurassic Park (1993). Subtitle reads: "She'll sit in her room, never come out, play on her computer."

From the Reddit AMA with Viktor Antonov https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4txenv/hey_reddit_i_am_viktor_antonov_halflife_2s_city/

Question: "Hi Viktor! I had a question regarding reusing things from HL2's old story. I noticed some striking similarities to some of HL2's older ideas in Dishonored, like the raised-rail trains that were previously seen in City 17's scrapped industrial district and those above-ground gate booths that were previously used by the combine for checkpoint doors. Is this purely coincidental? If not, is there a chance that we'll see more unused ideas from Half-Life 2 resurfacing in your future works?"

Answer: "I was happy to find out that many of my Arkane collaborators were fans of Half-Life 2 and they were interested in me designing more of the same style of mechanical devices. So it's not coincidental, and I'll consider using that same style for future projects."

Small brain man screaming at big brain man smiling meme but with the big brain man replaced by Hot Brain man smiling

Time was running out, and something amazing nearly happened. "Activision came to us and said do you want to make the next GoldenEye game?" says Ellis. "And that was a thing that gave us hope, and made us determined to turn things around."

For a brief moment, it existed. "In a very short space of time I had to throw together some ideas for what we would do with a remake of GoldenEye," says Littlewood, "and then one of our artists put together a new dam. We did it all in the end for PS3 and Xbox 360, the engine we had for that, so it was actually playable on there and all updated with minutiae and textures. It never saw the light of day, but we did that initial work because we wanted to show our willingness."

"Then GoldenEye suddenly disappeared," says Ellis. "Without ever any explanation, really. That sounded like a brilliant opportunity. That was one of the things that was happening right at the end when we didn't have many more options. In the end, they chose not to do it." Administration loomed.

"I believe I found a way to get StarForce working on VMware - add this to .vmx file:

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"

apparently, this disables the backdoor on interrupt 13h which VMware Tools uses to communicate with host file system, this is what StarForce uses to bust VMware"

"Attention Street Operators" Mr Do!'s Castle advertisement edited to say "ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?!" in Aurora Grotesk

Part of the Blue Stinger unused (?) beach/temple level geo

Mediainfo example for an episode of Patlabor. A lot of information is visible, including the specific tools they used to reencode the episode, date of encoding and exact settings used for this file.

"Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / fade_compensate=0.00 / psy_rd=0.85:0.10 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=4 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / fgo=0 / bframes=10 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=480 / keyint_min=12 / scenecut=50 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=crf / mbtree=0 / crf=17.0000 / qcomp=0.80 / qpmin=12:12:12 / qpmax=44:44:44 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.30 / pb_ratio=1.20 / aq=3:0.70 / aq-sensitivity=10.00 / aq-factor=1.00:1.00:1.00 / aq2=0 / aq3=0"

A logotype for a hypothetical "Tough Trucks: Re-monster-ed"

Issue #000 of a Half-Life 2 parody webcomic "Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman" by Christopher C. Livingston. Two metrocops are talking to each other, second to last panel reads as following:
"- So, didja catch Smallville last night?
- TiVo'd it."

6x8 grid of frame closeups, all but one have text saying "I Was Never Smart" on them. Original frames had two lines of text on them, saying "I Was Never Book Smart, I'm Money Smart ‼️", with the word "Book" and second line painstakingly painted over on each individual frame by yours truly

Comparison between the two states of "Use DXVA chroma upscaling" setting in madVR, left is correct and right is broken. There's a clear jump between two adjacent rows of pixels right above the man's eyes in the right image.